THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW, 83 



and there Is also a small opening for It where It pierces 

 the abdominal muscles. 



The tufts and scutcheon are best seen and appear to 

 open out at the time of calving, and become contracted 

 again shortly after the cow has been delivered. They 

 are best seen also on fat cows. 



Sometimes there is an Interminorlinof of two forms of 

 scutcheons. This depends on the crossing between a 

 cow of one class and a bull of another. There are diffi- 

 culties to encounter, then, In precisely estimating the 

 value of the animal. 



Before statinof the varieties of scutcheons described 

 by Guenon, I must mention that the tufts, or encroach- 

 ing patches of hair, which modify the scutcheon, have 



Fig. 14. 



